| almanac | (noun) an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields arranged according to the calendar of a given year | - |
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| (noun) an annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year | Synonyms: farmer's calendar |
| anachronic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronistic, anachronous |
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| anachronism | (noun) an artifact that belongs to another time | - |
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| (noun) a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age | - |
| (noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | Synonyms: misdating, mistiming |
| anachronistic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronous |
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| anachronistically | (adverb) in an anachronistic manner | - |
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| anachronous | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronistic |
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| anaclinal | (adjective) of valleys and rivers; progressing in a direction opposite to the dip in surrounding rock strata | - |
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| anaclisis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) relationship marked by strong dependence on others; especially a libidinal attachment to e.g. a parental figure | - |
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| anaclitic | (adjective) of or related to relationships that are characterized by the strong dependence of one person on another | - |
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| anacoluthia | (noun) an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another | Synonyms: anacoluthon |
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| anacoluthic | (adjective) of or related to syntactic inconsistencies of the sort known as anacoluthons | - |
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| anacoluthon | (noun) an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another | Synonyms: anacoluthia |
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| anaconda | (noun) large arboreal boa of tropical South America | Synonyms: Eunectes murinus |
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| apocynaceous | (adjective) of or relating to tropical plants of the family Apocynaceae | - |
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| arenaceous | (adjective) resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas | Synonyms: sandlike, sandy |
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| arundinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling reedlike plants of the genus Arundinaria | - |
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| barnacle | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: cirriped, cirripede |
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| (noun) European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north | Synonyms: barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis |
| binnacle | (noun) a nonmagnetic housing for a ship's compass (usually in front of the helm) | - |
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| carbonaceous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonic, carboniferous, carbonous |
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| chaenactis | (noun) any of several United States plants having long stalks of funnel-shaped white or yellow flowers | - |
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| conacaste | (noun) tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber | Synonyms: elephant's ear, Enterolobium cyclocarpa |
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| coronach | (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: dirge, lament, requiem, threnody |
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| effeminacy | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminateness, sissiness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness |
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| enact | (verb) act out; represent or perform as if in a play | Synonyms: act out, reenact |
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| (verb) order by virtue of superior authority; decree | Synonyms: ordain |
| enactment | (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, personation, portrayal |
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| (noun) the passing of a law by a legislative body | Synonyms: passage |
| (noun) a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body | Synonyms: act |
| farinaceous | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy |
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| (adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, starchlike |
| fastnacht | (noun) doughnut traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday | - |
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| furnace | (noun) an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. | - |
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| gallinacean | (noun) heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds | Synonyms: gallinaceous bird |
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| gallinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a gallinacean | - |
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| guanaco | (noun) wild llama | Synonyms: Lama guanicoe |
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| inaccessibility | (noun) the quality of not being accessible | - |
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| inaccessible | (adjective) capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all | Synonyms: unaccessible |
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| (adjective) not capable of being obtained | Synonyms: unobtainable, unprocurable, untouchable |
| inaccessibly | (adverb) in an inaccessible manner | - |
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| inaccuracy | (noun) the quality of being inaccurate and having errors | - |
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| inaccurate | (adjective) erroneous | - |
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| inaccurately | (adverb) in an inaccurate manner | - |
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| inaction | (noun) the state of being inactive | Synonyms: inactiveness, inactivity |
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| inactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: deactivate |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
| inactivation | (noun) breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) | Synonyms: deactivation |
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| (noun) the process of rendering inactive | - |
| inactive | (adjective) (military) not involved in military operations | Synonyms: nonoperational |
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| (adjective) not active physically or mentally | - |
| (adjective) (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly | - |
| (adjective) lacking activity; lying idle or unused | - |
| (adjective) lacking in energy or will | Synonyms: passive |
| (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct | Synonyms: dormant |
| (adjective) not exerting influence or change | - |
| (adjective) not engaged in full-time work | - |
| (adjective) not in physical motion | Synonyms: motionless, static, still |
| (adjective) (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert | - |
| inactiveness | (noun) a disposition to remain inactive or inert | Synonyms: inactivity, inertia |
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| (noun) the state of being inactive | Synonyms: inaction, inactivity |
| inactivity | (noun) being inactive; being less active | - |
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| (noun) a disposition to remain inactive or inert | Synonyms: inactiveness, inertia |
| (noun) the state of being inactive | Synonyms: inaction, inactiveness |
| indeterminacy | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminateness, indetermination |
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| knack | (noun) a special way of doing something | Synonyms: bent, hang |
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| knacker | (noun) someone who buys up old horses for slaughter | - |
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| (noun) someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them | - |
| knackered | (adjective) extremely exhausted | Synonyms: drained |
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| knackwurst | (noun) short thick highly seasoned sausage | Synonyms: knockwurst |
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| knickknack | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknackery, nicknack, whatnot |
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| (noun) a small inexpensive mass-produced article | Synonyms: novelty |
| knickknackery | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, nicknack, whatnot |
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| linac | (noun) ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path | Synonyms: linear accelerator |
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| lunacy | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, indulgence, tomfoolery |
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| (noun) obsolete terms for legal insanity | Synonyms: insaneness, madness |
| manacle | (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff, handlock |
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| (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff |
| menace | (noun) a threat or the act of threatening | - |
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| (noun) something that is a source of danger | Synonyms: threat |
| (verb) act in a threatening manner | - |
| (verb) express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture | - |
| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, peril, threaten |
| menacing | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| menacingly | (adverb) in a menacing manner | Synonyms: threateningly |
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| minacious | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| nacelle | (noun) a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine | - |
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| nacho | (noun) a tortilla chip topped with cheese and chili-pepper and broiled | - |
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| nacre | (noun) the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell | Synonyms: mother-of-pearl |
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| nacreous | (adjective) consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl | - |
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| (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent |
| nicknack | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, knickknackery, whatnot |
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| nonacceptance | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: turndown |
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| nonaccomplishment | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonachievement |
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| nonachievement | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonaccomplishment |
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| nonachiever | (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: underachiever, underperformer |
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| obstinacy | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinance, stubbornness |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
| panacea | (noun) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists | Synonyms: catholicon, cure-all, nostrum |
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| panache | (noun) a feathered plume on a helmet | - |
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| (noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: dash, elan, flair, style |
| pertinacious | (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, tenacious, unyielding |
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| pertinaciously | (adverb) in a dogged and pertinacious manner | - |
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| pertinacity | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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| phenacetin | (noun) a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic | Synonyms: acetophenetidin, acetphenetidin |
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| phenacomys | (noun) any of several vole-like terrestrial or arboreal rodents of cold forested regions of Canada and western United States | - |
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| pinnace | (noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: cutter, ship's boat, tender |
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| pinnacle | (noun) (architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress or tower | - |
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| (noun) a lofty peak | - |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| (verb) raise on or as if on a pinnacle | - |
| (verb) surmount with a pinnacle | - |
| plumbaginaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Plumbaginaceae | - |
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| proteinaceous | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of protein | - |
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| pugnacious | (adjective) ready and able to resort to force or violence | Synonyms: rough |
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| (adjective) tough and callous by virtue of experience | Synonyms: hard-bitten, hard-boiled |
| pugnaciously | (adverb) in a pugnacious manner | - |
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| pugnacity | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, belligerence |
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| quinacrine | (noun) a drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria | Synonyms: Atabrine, mepacrine, quinacrine hydrochloride |
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| reenact | (verb) act out; represent or perform as if in a play | Synonyms: act out, enact |
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| (verb) enact or perform again | - |
| (verb) enact again | - |
| reenactment | (noun) performing a role in an event that occurred at an earlier time | - |
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| reenactor | (noun) a person who enacts a role in an event that occurred earlier | - |
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| saponaceous | (adjective) resembling or having the qualities of soap | Synonyms: soapy |
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| snack | (noun) a light informal meal | Synonyms: bite, collation |
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| (verb) eat a snack; eat lightly | Synonyms: nosh |
| snacker | (noun) someone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals | Synonyms: nosher |
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| solanaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the family Solanaceae (the potato family) | - |
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| spinach | (noun) dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads | - |
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| (noun) southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves | Synonyms: prickly-seeded spinach, spinach plant, Spinacia oleracea |
| tabernacle | (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: synagogue, temple |
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| tenacious | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: long, recollective, retentive |
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| (adjective) sticking together | Synonyms: coherent |
| (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, unyielding |
| tenaciously | (adverb) with obstinate determination | Synonyms: doggedly |
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| tenaciousness | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenacity |
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| tenacity | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness |
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| unaccented | (adjective) (used of syllables) carrying no stress | Synonyms: atonic |
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| (adjective) (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | Synonyms: light, weak |
| unacceptability | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: unacceptableness |
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| unacceptable | (adjective) not acceptable; not welcome | - |
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| (adjective) (used of persons or their behavior) not acceptable or reasonable | Synonyms: impossible |
| (adjective) not conforming to standard usage | Synonyms: unaccepted |
| (adjective) not adequate to give satisfaction | - |
| unacceptableness | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: unacceptability |
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| unacceptably | (adverb) to an unacceptable degree | Synonyms: intolerably |
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